A proud sister

Miss Squiggy is proud to announce that her brother Gunner did it again! He had another good day at the horse show in Moose Jaw and brought home another check. Not bad, two shows, two checks----

Ok, obviously Squiggy does not care. But I care, I am so excited for him, his trainer and his owners, I could blow up.

But it was a good excuse to post this pic. Which reminds me that I have yet to finish her registration application after I had the fight with AQHA over their half assed online registration system, and here we are ready to register her little sister. I better get on that

Woo hoo! Woo hooo!

Big news doing in the great big yonder---

Diablo's 2005 son Gunner (aka Young N High) went to his first cutting today--and drew a check!

He placed seventh out of 31 in the open 3 year old class in Moose Jaw, Sasketchewan, Canada.

He shows first thing in the morning again in another 3 year old open class

Congratulations Carrie and Doyle for seeing the benefit of all that investment you have made, and good luck in the morning.

This may be the only thing that can drag me away from the Olympics!

Go Gunner and Jason!

Gunner portraits

I so wish we had taken the time to put a proper halter on him and groom him so that he looked good, but I am still pretty pleased with these pictures overall.
This is Gunner, who is owned by Carrie Thompson in Alberta, Canada. He is the son of my Diablo and High Brow Hickory. He is three this year and his registered name is Young N High, which I think is hysterical.
He is being trained by Jason Olsen, and is just starting his show career in the next few weeks.
He will do a few cutting futurities, and Jason is confident that he will bring home some checks as he is very solid for a three year old at this stage.









We did not get to see him work, as he had already been worked earlier in the day--we intended to see him do a practice work at the Stampede later in the week, but the hook up never happened. I will just have to take Jason's word for it, I guess, until we see some paychecks.








Depending on how much money he earns this year, and how he stacks up to the competition, he will likely show during his four year old year.

After that, he will be embarking on a new career as a stud.










This is a fun adventure to be on with the Thompsons, and we could not ask for more in a customer than they have been--they have carried through on their plans to get him shown, and campaign him.

I know he will pay them back in spades over the next few years.